Transliteration: sa ra ha
<noun> "Saraha". The name of a great Indian Mahāsiddha. Often called དཔལ་མདའ་བསྣུན་ q.v. or བྲམ་ཟེ་ཆེན་པོ་ q.v. Saraha was born a Brahmin and later became a great siddhi in the Buddhist tradition. He was later regarded as the grandfather or chief of the eighty-four mahāsiddhas. In particular, he is a source of much of the Mahāmudrā tradition found in all Tibetan Buddhist traditions and particularly in the Kagyu tradition; see བཀའ་བབས་བཞི་ "the four lines of transmission of the command.
